Since Tu Bishvat is considered the “Birthday for Trees,” a time when trees are to be judged regarding their fate for the coming year, I hope the following lessons, based on Jewish quotations about ...

Last year, I wrote a story about the importance and power of small acts of kindness during the holiday season in the San Antonio Express-News. Those reflections feel even more urgent today. I now feel ...

Trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in cooperative ways that hold lessons for humans, too, ecologist Suzanne Simard says. Simard grew up in Canadian forests as a descendant ...

On Thursday, December 2, at 11 a.m., the Center City District and The Dow Chemical Company will join more than a dozen students from Philadelphia Academies, Inc.’s Environmental Academy, in ...

One of a plant lover’s greatest pleasures is discovering a species that thrives in a place where it has no business growing, at least according to accepted wisdom regarding that species’ growth ...

Once the cold snap hit, we were finally able to get the Christmas tree. The first time we went to the lot, the trees were bundled in twine and the guy working the lot wouldn’t cut the twine and show ...